Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want a tax cut? The Republicans tell me their compromise combo platter, currently ambling toward a White House veto, is just what I?ve been dreaming about at night: a 1 percent reduction in income taxes and less taxes on what I?m saving for retirement. And the slashing of capital gains taxes and the so-called marriage penalty, well, I?m sure they?d come in handy if I had a stock portfolio and a wife (someday!). So what?s not to like...
...Medicare. (In the short term, that means national-debt reduction, because the programs are still healthy, and will remain so for 20 years or so until the baby-boom retirement hits us full-force.) The fight is over that last trillion (give or take a few hundred billion). Republicans want to give $792 billion of it back to the people, and Clinton wants to spend a nearly equal portion -- $750 billion, by some calculations -- on defense, on education, on new Medicare benefits like prescription-drug coverage. He?s willing to cut taxes a little, and Republicans are willing to spend...
...next decade, the economy hiccups, or so-called "emergency" spending increases, or something unexpected simply comes up, that $3 trillion evaporates pretty fast. So why can?t I say no to both? That?s what Alan Greenspan said to Congress last week, although neither side seemed to want to hear it that way. Set the surplus aside, said Sir Alan, because it?s not even paper money yet, and because Americans might really need a tax cut someday. (Oh ?- and he really hates inflation...
...said it was unlikely that he would want to remain on the council as a student representative for many years, and that if elected, he hopes that another student would take over when he decides to leave the council...
...shaping up to be a closely-contested Senate race. "Her enemies like to cast her as cold, calculating and ambitious, and sharing her own pain in this interview helps to humanize her," says McAllister. "But that won?t necessarily change anyone?s mind about whether or not they want her representing them in the Senate." And -- wouldn?t you know it -- just as the spotlight falls on Hillary, that Monica Lewinsky goes and gets in a headline grabbing fender bender...